For many years we have had two VBA macros (called from buttons in a ribbon extension). One macro sets up the open document to show Tracked changes *and* comments, the other sets up the document to show only tracked changes but hides comments
The important lines of the macros are
With recent changes of the commenting features in Office/word, both macros show comments, and I cannot hide comments while seeing tracked changes with my VBAActiveWindow.View.ShowRevisionsAndComments = True; ActiveWindow.View.ShowComments = False/True
My analysis show that the behaviour is linked to the new "show comments" button in the comments group in the Review tab.
This "Show Comments" button has two variants: "Contextual" or "List". when "show comments - Contextual" has been selected from the ribbon my original procedures work, but only until I close the document
it also seems that just using the "show comments" button once to turn off display of comments make our original procedures work.
I can not find a VBA method to do the "Show Comments - Contextual" function (and I am not sure what function is behind the button "Show comments - off"
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